No. Yes. Jim Miller doesn't know of my forum participation nor my screen name. Jim may or may not know that we have several forum members (you being one of them) that resort to threats of bodily harm whenever they don't like the way a debate is going (i.e., they are losing / look foolish), so I continue to value my anonymity. (Plus, it has the added value of driving you nuts, simply because you want to know who I am and you can't have it. )

Bottom line: I'm not asking Jim anything here that I wouldn't ask him in person.

Making an all-encompassing statement like "everyone knows there is no price gouging" at Hawthorne is smarmy, self-serving -- and as I reported with the comments of some of the poker players -- flat out false.

When? When he erroneously stated that the players would have had to pay $40 or $50 to the charity if Hawthorne didn't charge parking and admission, in addition to the $100 buy in? That wouldn't fly with the poker players. 30% is pretty much the max rate the players tolerate -- any more than that, and they simply don't show.

(Do YOU play on the charity poker circuit, Mel? I do. That's how I know this stuff. Did you get caught talking out of your ass again, Mel? )

No. Yes. Jim Miller doesn't know of my forum participation nor my screen name. Jim may or may not know that we have several forum members (you being one of them) that resort to threats of bodily harm whenever they don't like the way a debate is going (i.e., they are losing / look foolish), so I continue to value my anonymity.

There are two things Jim can tell you. 1.) That he knows me, 2.) That I back up what I say.

Now, having said that, he doesn't know you at all, and if I really wanted to find out who you are, I would in 24 hours. I'm have no interest in cowards!

I'm still waiting for Janines "verification" (since she quickly provided it for you) to test her credibility.

A long time ago, when he was yet again threatening to beat some poster or another up, he bragged that he'd initiated some scuffles at Hawthorne and got hauled into the security office and thus had a rap sheet there. I guess this is something to be proud of, in some circles.

Well, he does have a rap sheet in the Hawthorne security office and is proud of it, so he can't be a total fraud.

But of course, so do a number of the well-known stoopers.

Listen to this bullshitter! I like everything about Hawthorne and AP. There are a lot of good people who work at the Chicago tracks. Security at Hawthone knows when someone deserves a *** slapping, and besides, it then becomes a police matter.